A teacher who persuaded a girl aged 15 to sign a “slave contract” agreeing to
have sex with him has been banned from teaching for life.
Kelvin Loraine, 31, groomed the teenager over the internet then drove hundreds
of miles from his home in Durham to Plymouth in Devon to have sex in a hotel
room.
Loraine told police he knew the girl’s age when he first made contact and
waited until after her 16th birthday before having intercourse with her.
A disciplinary hearing of the National College for Teaching and Leadership
found Loraine guilty of misconduct and imposed the lifetim

A head teacher urged schools to ignore their new duty to promote British values, saying these had been poorly defined and clumsily enforced.
Robin Bevan, head teacher of Southend High School for Boys, Essex, said the duty was unnecessary as schools must already have a broad and balanced curriculum and develop spiritual and culture understanding.
A future right-wing government or a coalition with Ukip might misuse the requirement in a divisive way on issues such as immigration, he said.
Dr Bevan introduced a motion criticising the renewed focus on British values in schools at the conference of

Labour would allow schools to inspect each other with Ofsted’s role limited to
checking they did so accurately, the party said yesterday.
Head teachers would lead a “peer review” system of school inspection with
Ofsted as the moderator, providing quality assurance.
Tristram Hunt, the shadow education secretary, signalled the radical change in
school inspections in a speech to the Association of Teachers and Lecturers’
conference in Liverpool.
He told them: “Ofsted needs to move towards a supportive, light-touch,
profession-led, centrally moderated, peer review system of i

Teachers are calling for a right of anonymity for teaching assistants, lab
technicians and other school support staff to protect them from pupils’
false allegations.
In a survey by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) almost two
fifths of teachers who took part said that a member of staff in their school
had been falsely accused by a pupil.
Almost a quarter said they knew of an adult working in their school who had
been targeted with a false accusation by a parent or other member of a
child’s family.
As education secretary, Michael Gove changed the law